Hello everyone, and welcome back to another chapter of Eight Days of Christmas. Before we get in to the good stuff, I'd like to thank everyone who read my story, as it has been my most popular to date. (I used to have other stories on here, but none of them ever got 30+ viewers in a day. That's some serious shit, there.) So once again, thank you to all the viewers who, as far as I can tell, at least glanced at my story! You guys are awesome! :D
December 18, Morning
Yu pulled at the tights that continuously tried to work its way into his ass. (A/N: That hot, Protagonist ass. XD SonicBlueSky makes the best quotes, I swear.)
"Why couldn't we have the fantasy elf stereotype instead? I'm getting a permanent wedgie..." Yu mumbled, just audible over the excited cheers the children exerted at seeing Santa's Elves.
"I have a feeling either way I'd be wearing a shirt two sizes too small and you'd still have a pair of tights trying to give you a prostate exam." Naoto said as she crossed her arms over her chest, a subtle attempt to cover her chest from public view.
"Come on! Be happy! Look, the kids are happy to see you here!" Yosuke said with a smile as he walked out from the curtain to reveal himself covered head to toe in an orthodox gingerbread man suit, complete with huge gumdrops in colours ranging from a pink that was brighter than a girl's...nevermind to neon green to midnight blue and back again and a snow-white wig made to look like hair composed of frosting.
"Yeah, Nao-chan! Think of how much happiness we'll bring to the kids! It'll be great~!" Teddie said from an entirely different bear suit as Chie walked into public view, dressed up as Jacquelyn Frost, her skin blue from the make-up, as if she permanently stayed out in the snow.
Yu found this very ironic, considering her Persona's elemental attacks.
"Who the hell are you supposed to be, Teddie?" Jacquelyn Frost inquired, the gray pantsuit she was in made it feel like a lawyer hammering the defendant.
"I'm the Yeddie! Rawr!" the faux snowmonster exclaimed happily
Yu could see how he was supposed to be the infamous Yeti now. The suit was mostly made like Teddie's normal bear costume, except the fur was longer, and light gray in colour, to match the colour of snow for camouflage.
"The Yeddie? Don't you make enough puns already?" Naoto snapped
"Y-You don't have to be so mean, Nao-chan!" Teddie whimpered
"I-I'm sorry... It's just... I'm not exactly fond of being an 'Advertisement', as Yosuke put it..." she sighed
All eyes flicked to Yosuke
"What~? If you have the two most attractive people on display, then more people will stop by, and then they'll be more likely to hang around. We have to do something to pick up business..." Yosuke explained right before he looked at his watch. "Woah, look alive, 'cause it's opening time for Santa's Wonderland!" Yosuke cheered to his less-than-enthusiastic fellow investigators-turned-Christmas-decor.
Daily Highlights (A/N: This is to save a ton of time on my part and yours. If I was to make it go through the entire cycle of the children passing through the line, going up to Kanji-Claus, telling him what their wish was, and then leaving, PLUS all the funny shit, then starting all over, it'd just end up as one huge clusterfuck of a chapter, so sorry, but no.)
"How are you two doing today~?" Naoto politely asked two brothers who held their mother's hand
"Pretty good, thanks." the Redhead answered coolly
"Very well, thank you." the Bluenette responded thoughtfully
"Asbel! Hubert! Please, introduce yourselves to this lovely young woman here." the mother
"I'm Asbel. Who're you?" the redhead asked nonchalantly
"I'm Hubert, Miss! It's a pleasure to meet you!" the bluenette greeted happily
"I'm Naoto. And it's nice to meet you too, Hubert~."
"Hey, I've got a question, Naoto." Asbel told her
"Go for it." Naoto encouraged him
Asbel had to stand on his tiptoes, and even then he could only just manage to poke Naoto's breast "Why is your chest bigger than mom's?"
Yu had seen all he needed to. He was currently in the process of trying to make that redhead's head explode from sheer willpower. He'd rather go over there and beat some common sense into him, but seeing as how that'd get him arrested, he'd have to make do with this.
Yu never noticed, but his hand had fallen subconsciously into Persona -Summoning position. The card had just begun to take shape...
When he was pegged in the back of the head by a snowball
"These elves are so uptight sometimes, I swear that they don't know what fun is, much less how to have fun!" Yosuke said from his Gingerbread Man suit "I'll bet you can't hit me with a snowball in a million years!" He taunted in his irritably high-pitched Gingerbread-Man voice
Yu was seeing red. Yosuke knew this, so why the hell was he pissing him off even further!
Unconsciously, Yu gathered a handful of the fake snow, which had the consistency of real snow, and formed a snowball and aimed for the one place he never thought he would:
The gumdrops.
Yosuke crinkled to the floor as Yu threw a snowy curveball that slammed into Yosuke's chin like a boxer's uppercut would, knocking him spreadeagled on the floor.
Some of the children in the line saw this as an opportunity to... well, be kids. (In other words, cause nothing but total chaos and anarchy) Those that felt like it slipped under the line and started jumping on and playing around with Yosuke's crumpled body. One child even decided that the gumdrops looked yummy and tried to pull one off to eat it.
"NOT THE BUTTONS! NOT MY GUMDROP BUTTONS!" Yosuke shouted in his Gingerbread-Man voice. Not really that surprising since Yu had just raised his voice a couple of octaves for at least the next few minutes.
Yu was amazed Yosuke was still conscious, let alone able to make Shrek references in such a state... He really was a trooper.
December 18, Evening
Yu found Naoto walking out of Santa's Wonderland after having changed back into her winter clothes
"Yu, it's fine! No one else touched me. God, you smother me sometimes, I swear!" Naoto scoffed at him
"B-But, he touched you! How can you be so calm!" Yu interrogated her
"It's fine! He was just wondering about a difference in mine and his mother's body. Besides, that's the age when kids get curious. You know that! My getting mad wouldn't have helped. His mother already read him the Riot Act, and his brother was pretty close to chewing him out, too!"
"I-I'm sorry. I just worry about you, you know?" Yu asked sincerely
"Yes, I know, and I'm grateful for it... Yu, don't make any plans for the 23rd, alright? I want to give my gift to you that night, if that's okay..." Naoto looked away after speaking.
Don't make plans on the 23rd? But that's my birthday, and she knew that. Yu hadn't even gotten around to telling Dojima yet. He normally would have politely declined, but for Naoto, he'd make an exception.
"Alright, I'll keep that day open."
"R-Really! Thank you, Yu-kun!"
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